R.I.P. 30 ROCK R.I.P COMMUNITY R.I.P. PARKS & REC

the only episode from this season that really struck me as prime himym in every way was at the japanese steakhouse w/ ted telling the story about victoria and the bet between marshall/lily and barney and i can't remember robin's storyline off the top of my head, something w/ work maybe. there were a few other ones that were good but that's the only one i could imagine someone holding in comparison w/ pre-bubble himym. w/ the exception of the one 'date' ted had w/ stella that was 3 minutes long (and that might be just cuz they played a big star song) i think i've dreaded every minute of every big ted relationship since robin and that's alot of airtime. they somehow screwed up the (first?) robin-barney relationship and that should've been a gimme, how the fuck did they make that duller than robin-ted??? marshall-lily they have only occasionally seemed to really have an idea what to do w/ lately and while marshall has had some good storylines i can't really recall the last time lily had a compelling storyline that was her own, and the problem w/ ted is the central dilemma w/ the show and they haven't solved it yet. clover otm about what still works about this show though.

Don't forget re: HIMYM the first ep of this season was Barney's wedding so it makes sense they plAy up a few diff romances to keep us guessing who it'll be. Not sure if wedding is season finale anymore though?

imo the worst possible way to watch HIMYM is like it's Lost or something and actually live in suspense about 'the mother' or any other long term memories. i'm sure there are people that can even take the fun out of the Slapsgiving countdown.

lol community's getting the chuck deal. i'm not sure i get the whitney move - it seems like either you believe that could be a hit w/ proper retooling in which case you keep it on a night ppl actually watch tv on (or just keep it where it is) or you believe this show has very limited growth opportunities but it has a loyal audience and helps yr brand w/ critics and certain demos in which case you put it on fridays, and the move seems to indicate nbc doesn't hold the former view and nothing i have heard seems to indicate they should hold the latter view. parks and rec should've been on after the office it's entire run.

For all I know, every single new show they're adding to the lineup could be fucking wonderful...but it doesn't matter, because no one even watches NBC anymore unless it's football, singers, Donald Trump and/or people losing weight.

the trailer for revolution isn't half bad? out of all the crap abrams has produced since lost, it seems like the closest thing to lost, in that the pilot might be really good and the rest of the crap show will be intriguing enough to foster an annoying cult fandom. but NBC probably would've killed for lost's numbers so

See...based on the trailer, Revolution looks like high-concept done right (using the concept as backdrop, not foreground). I mean, that's something you can get a lot of mileage out of without having to constantly tease ill-developed "reveals" that ultimately disappoint. The less you have to rely on clicking puzzle pieces into place in order to propel the narrative, the better off you're gonna be. But it's entirely possible that I'm wrong and they'll actually go that highly-devalued route and crank out one convoluted season before turfing out. Time will tell.

like unless all electricity in this show was being provided by some sort of glowing cube that some guy found and the electricity wirelessly transmitted to everybody and everybody who knew other ways of generating electricity died then the cube got sad and turned off

a world without ions is a world without acids or bases, that'd be even more problematic, everything wld have a pH of 7, your saliva wouldn't work right anymore, stomach couldn't digest shit, now that's a show I'd watch, people crapping out entire unmolested porkchops

You know how you could tell shows were NBC shows just by looking at them for the past few years? Heroes, The Event, The Cape, Harry's Law, etc etc? I was watching the Revolution trailer and, even though I knew it was an NBC property the whole time, it didn't look or feel like one. Maybe they've at least turned a corner here.